Wit RURAL NEW.YORKER 
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Crops and Farm News 
The general business with us at this 
time is gathering ice and hauling feed. 
The local millers grind buckwheat with 
the old process with buhr stones, and do 
very satisfactory work. They have a steel 
mill for grinding feed and meal; can 
grind wheat and rye, but there is very lit¬ 
tle raised. Oats, corn and buckwheat and 
potatoes are main crops. The farmers 
boy most of their feed, and their feed 
bills are immense, as all keep all the cows 
they possibly can, and often buy hay. No 
snow on the ground here, and only in a 
few places can ice be got. The railway 
which passes through here io hauling ice 
from their ponds and selling it, hauling 
as far as 20 miles. This is a great coun¬ 
try for sugar maples, nearly every farmer 
having from 200 to 2,000 trees. ‘Most all 
have evaporators, and they are getting 
busy to make all the sprup they can. It 
has been $2 per gallon all Winter. Milk, 
retail, delivered, 12c; eggs, 40c; hogs, 
dressed, 22c; beef, 14 to 17c; butter, 55c; 
maple sugar, 22c. c. a. h. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
The majority of the men here work in 
the city during the Winter months. There 
is a lot of uncultivated or waste land in 
this part of the country ; for one reason, it 
is too hilly to cultivate. The farms or 
truck gardens run in size from five to 20 
acres, mostly chickens and truck. We 
might find a few’ in the county who have 
o() or 100 acres; those are old pioneers. 
Potatoes,' $2 per bu.; wheat, $2.10; 
shelled corn, $1.40; milk, 60c per gal.; 
turnips, $1; carrots, $1; parsnips, $1; 
cabbage, 5c per lb.; celery, 50c per bun- 
(11<\ 11 stalks in bundle; beans, $10 per 
c ' vt - ; eggs, 70c; dressed chicken, 40c per 
lb. I hose are the prices Ave get from 
the consumer. Every man tries to build 
a route in the city and supplies them 
once a week with whatever he can. That 
cuts the middleman out. All the middle¬ 
man gets is what we cannot sell to the 
consumer; it is a very satisfactory way 
for both consumer and producer. ' Must 
farm crops raised here arc wheat and 
corn ; the outlook for wheat- is real good 
so far. Barley and buckwheat are not 
grown much here. j. m. 
Allegheny Co., Pa. 
Today, Feb. 25, seems like Winter. 
We have had but two cold mornings 
this Winter. Jan. 3 and 4 (third two 
below and fourth four below zero). I 
keep record before sunup, at noon, or 15 
or 20 minutes after, sun time, and just 
before dark. We have had three snows, 
each about one-half inch, and some others 
to whiten the ground; considerable rain, 
but much nice weather, which was very 
hard on our wheat, reducing the crop 
perhaps one-third already. The average 
temperature this month to the 25th was: 
Mornings, 25 3/5 degrees; noons, 33*4 
degrees; nights, 31% degrees; coldest 
morning. 10 degrees; warmest, 40 de¬ 
grees ; warmest at noon. 42 degrees, all 
in the shade. Leaving out four days in 
January (second to fifth, inclusive), the 
temperature would be near the same since 
December 25. Last Summer, up to July, 
was the coldest for 116 years, so the 
paper stated. It certainly was very wet. 
August sixth was hottest of our extreme 
hot spell, surpassed anything I ever saw, 
and I am past 75; 106 degrees during 
most of afternoon, still 105 degrees at 
dark. In October waters were lower 
than ever known. The Union City paper 
stated that “it rained on 20 davs in 
November.” My record showed IS‘days. 
Union is seven miles northwest. It was 
impossible to husk corn last Fall on 
account of rain. My record shows rain 
on 24 days in 42. Near half the corn 
was husked this Winter; quite a bit to 
husk yet. C. E. 
Cold water, Mich. 
I live in the northeastern part of 
Somerset County. Most of the farms 
around here have been bought, up by city 
people, and they have turned them into 
country homes. Very little grain raised 
around here excepting wheat, and that 
only since war times began. Govern¬ 
ment buyers buy all of that and send it 
to New York by the carload. A few of 
the farmers raise milk, but most of them 
practice mixed farming. Quite a lot of 
truck was grown here before the war 
gardens began, and we sold it in the 
small towns, but we are too far away 
from Newark or any large market to 
raise that with any profit. Our main 
crops are corn and oats, most of that fed 
on the farm to hogs and poultry. If we 
sell it to the mill we get $1.70 per bu., 
or about 3c per lb. The miller in turn 
grinds it to meal and sells it to the mer¬ 
chant for 5c per lb.; he retails it for 8c 
per lb. IIow about the 35-eent dollar 
here for the farmer? I formerly raised 
peaches and berries, but had to abandon 
that for want of help. Milk, wholesale, 
8c per qt.; retail, 15c. Corn. $1.70 per 
bu.; oats. 80c; wheat. $2 to $2.20; hay, 
loose. $20 to $20 per ton. Buckwheat 
sold mostly for chicken feed, $2 per bu.; 
potatoes, $2 per bu. ;apples, $4 per bid. 
Peaches were very scarce last year, but 
sold for $1 to $2 per 16-qt. basket. Hogs, 
20c per lb., dressed ; chickens. “0c per lb., 
live. Beef very little raised, but sells for 
30c, dressed. Farm land is selling for 
$100 to $400 per acre. g. m. 
Somerset Co., N. J. 
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